Flickr Social media has changed our culture in many ways. It has given us the means to communicate directly, share all aspects of our lives with our extended contacts, and offer our opinions at any time of the day. It has also given us the means to express our vanity, and a thriving Instagram model culture pervades the…

Regular exercise is good for you. If you’re too inactive, it can have an effect on you both physically and mentally. Various recommendations from doctors include that you should do half an hour of moderate exercise a day, or at least a couple of hours a week. If fitness is your thing, you probably get plenty of exercise…

If you’ve lived with regular headaches for any significant period of time, you’ll know just how debilitating they can be. Weeks and months can go by with daily headaches that seem like they’re never going to end.Fortunately, science has moved on a lot over the last couple of decades and researchers are discovering all sorts of ways to…

Summer is here; there’s no denying that – the weather has certainly started to heat up, which is why I thought it was time to share a little self-care post with you. Apparently, summer is the time when a lot of us fail to think about self-care because we’re too busy lapping up the sun, but we shouldn’t…

Image source Boosts Brain Power Feeling like your brain needs a boost? Then jump on a bike. New research has revealed that the cardiorespiratory improvement that cycling brings also brings about an improvement in the way that we deal with mental tasks. Apparently cycling helps to create new brain cells in the ‘hippocampus’ part of the brain and…

Be honest. How many times have you been on a diet? Now that you’ve answered that question, ask yourself another. How many times have you lost weight and then put it back on? The trouble with dieting is that often, it’s not sustainable. The key to dropping weight and keeping it off is adopting new habits. There’s an…

We go through life trying to find the perfect balance between our diet and our exercise. For some, it’s a lifetime struggle and this is usually due to outside factors that affect our choices. If you haven’t already begun to pay attention to your own health and fitness, now is the time to start. It’s not just about…

Working out is great for you, everybody knows that. But it can also be dangerous if you don’t do it right. If you’re about to start your first ever workout routine you won’t have a clue what you’re doing. Don’t worry, everybody else went through the same thing when they started out. Those huge guys at the gym…

Everyone understands that living a fit and healthy life is preferable to living its opposite. It will help your body, mind, and spirit function better on a day to day schedule. It will help you overcome the worst of self-doubt and fatigue that approaching the challenge of daily life can sometimes give you. It will also allow you…

Flickr Getting on the road to becoming a better person is a deeply spiritual pursuit. Spiritual doesn’t necessarily mean prescribed to a certain religion, but rather shedding the layers of dishonesty and neuroticism that it’s easy to accumulate in our modern, fast-paced disposable culture. To better yourself can sometimes seem too hard, or not worth the effort, or…